Tuesday, March 26, 2013

NUS Geography Challenge 2013 GeoTrail and Grand Finals


Hi everyone!

Its 3 more days to GeoTrail and Grand Finals! We are extremely excited and we hope you guys are too! Please be reminded that schools are required to report at 0730 hours at the Open Plaza of the OUE BayFront for registration. OUE BayFront is located near Exit J of Raffles Place MRT Station.

All GeoTrail participants should be wearing the maroon coloured t-shirt with their school PE shorts given our during the Preliminary Round. After GeoTrail has ended, students are expected to change into their school uniform for the Grand Finals.

Things to Bring:

  1. A signed copy of the Rules and Regulations of GeoTrail 
  2. Digital Camera with a memory free SD card (Any photos in the camera during bag check will be deleted)
  3. Writing materials (Colour pencils/markers/highlighters are also highly encouraged)
  4. Ez-link card with at least $15 in value
  5. Some money for lunch
  6. Umbrella/Raincoat
  7. Street Directory, Bus Guides or a map of Singapore (Optional)

All students should report back to Town Plaza, University Town, National University of Singapore by 1530 hours. Schools that arrive late will be penalized 1 mark per minute. Schools are strongly encouraged to carefully plan their route to ensure sufficient time to get back to NUS. Please find at the end of this post a map of University Town. We strongly encourage you to print out a copy of this map.

The whole event is expected to end at 1930 hours. Please refer to the circular on the right column of this blog for more details. See you this Saturday at 0730 hours!




Saturday, March 2, 2013

Preliminary Round Results for GC 2013


Apologies for the previous post which has been deleted due to a calculation error.

After an exciting Preliminary Round, the results are finally out!
Congratulations to the following schools for making it into the top 40! In alphabetical order, the schools are:


Anderson Secondary School
Anglo Chinese School (Independent)
Bedok Town Secondary
Boon Lay Secondary School
Bukit Merah Secondary
Cedar Girls' Secondary School
CHIJ Katong Convent Secondary
CHIJ Secondary (Toa Payoh)
CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls' School
Commonwealth Secondary School
Deyi Secondary School
Dunman High School
East View Secondary School
Fairfield Methodist School (Secondary)
Fuhua Secondary School
Hai Sing Catholic School
Hua Yi Secondary School
Hwa Chong Institution
Jurong Secondary School
Jurongville Secondary School
Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School
Maris Stella High School
Methodist Girls' School
Nanyang Girls' High School
New Town Secondary School
North Vista Secondary School
Northbrooks Secondary School
NUS High School of Math and Science
Raffles Institution
Raffles Girls' School (Secondary)
River Valley High School
School of Science and Technology, Singapore
School of the Arts
Sembawang Secondary School
Serangoon Secondary School
St. Joseph's Institution
St. Margaret's Secondary School
Swiss Cottage Secondary School
Tanjong Katong Girls' School
Victoria School

To the rest of the schools who did not make it into the 2nd round, we welcome you to participate in the Open category of GEO-Stop. To the top 40 schools, more information regarding the 2nd round will be sent to you shortly as well as updated on the blog! Please do check back frequently for updated news!